Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane with our old photos, historic maps, local history books, and memories of Bishop Auckland. Refresh & enjoy your personal memories, or find some that family & friends will love as gifts.

It's free to browse our vintage and retro photographs of Bishop Auckland, but if some spark good memories they are available to buy in a wide range of products, including framed prints, canvas prints and personalised photo gifts including tea towels, mugs, jigsaws, tableware, cushion covers, customised calendars. Don't miss other visitors' Memories and maybe connect with those who have shared their memories - you may even know the names, or learn more about the locality.

Old Maps of Bishop Auckland

Historic Maps of Bishop Auckland and the local area.

Sheet Maps of Bishop Auckland

Historic Folded Sheet Maps of Bishop Auckland and the local area, matching current OS Landranger Sheet Maps.

I started at The Mount in September 1947 when I was 3.5 and remember the uniform so clearly - plus of course the liberty bodices with buttons on for the elastic to hold up one's stockings. I was one of the very few children who could not only read but tie my own shoe laces and consequently was given the job of tying everyone else's! I remember the ghastly school lunches - watery mince or graveyard stew as it ...see more
Approx 2 years working at SS LIngfords in Newgate Street. The old fashioned type of shop where you were served. We roasted our own coffee beans every Monday morning. Cooked our own "boiled" ham every week. Part of my job was to bone the hams prior to cooking in our own large boiler.We bought whole sides of bacon which were carved up, shoulders and hams, and I was taught how to bone them with the ...see more

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